Some of the time nouns don't require measure words.
三年，四周，五天，六秒，七日 ...
Are there any more nouns (time nouns or otherwise) that don't require a MW ?
Is there a comprehensive list somewhere ?
3 Answers
The trick is the omission behind (again).
It is the objective that is omitted, not the MW words.
The complete words are:
三年(时间),四周(时间), etc
As you can see now, there are MW words. Just too obvious to add the objective again.
Another example, after business dinner in CN, people usually ask 刚喝了几杯,
which means 几杯(酒). But we never say 几酒.
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Right, agree. For the question, I guess there's no such list of nouns that don't require measure word? I couldn't think of any.– sylviaDec 11, 2019 at 16:59
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Yup, I think so. Check more detail for this MW Chinese explanation. The main difference of MW in cn is that we use it for countable nouns and actions.– ShawDec 11, 2019 at 19:24
合球隊有四男四女。 In English: There are four males and four females in Korfball team.
他昨天那場打得很好，12殺1死8助攻。 In English: He played well in that round, he got 12 kills 1 death and 8 assists yesterday.
I want to say that 年，月，日，周,时，分，秒 they are do units of time,that is certainly measure word. Although they are also nouns.We can call them nominal measure words.
你喝了幾杯水？B:五杯!Not:五個杯子!)...